Minnesota Lawyer

There has been a great deal written about an attorney’s obligation to provide clients with their files upon termination of representation. This obligation stems from ...

Most Minnesota lawyers know that several of the Rules of Professional Conduct prohibit the assertion of frivolous claims. See Rule 3.11 and 3.32 MRPC. Most ...

Generally, lawyers are prohibited from entering into settlement agreements that will prevent them from being able to accept future clients against the same defendant. Rule ...

A lawyer is prohibited from allowing a person “who recommends, employs or pays the lawyer to render legal services for another to direct or regulate ...

Oftentimes lawyers will represent a number of people against one adverse party. For example, a lawyer may represent a group of employees with claims against ...

In 1996, the Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board (LPRB) adopted Opinion 18, which prohibits an attorney’s tape-recording of telephone conversations without the knowledge of the ...

During the last five years, the Supreme Court has suspended more than 90 Minnesota attorneys. The length of suspension varies from 30 days to indefinite ...

Among the duties performed by the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility is to act as staff to the Minnesota Client Security Board. That board’s function ...

Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board Opinion 15 was adopted on Sept. 13, 1991. This opinion sets forth specific requirements for dealing with various types of advance ...

By now, every lawyer should know that when a lawyer’s representation of a client terminates, the lawyer must return the client’s property and files as ...